El Arca del Maestro

El Arca del Maestro was a Spanish Navy man o' war (galleon) that was gifted to French smuggler Julien du Casse by Cuba governor Laureano Torres y Ayala in 1715. The ship was large and slow, and the pirate Edward Thatch planned to capture the ship and use it to create a barrier to block the British Royal Navy from recapturing Nassau, the pirates' main base. Thatch's friend Edward Kenway and his ship, the Jackdaw, tailed the ship to Great Inagua, engaging eight Spanish Navy ships on the way. Kenway later infiltrated the island and killed Du Casse aboard the ship, which was captured by the pirates. Thatch had its cannons repositioned on land in Nassau to defend the port, while the ship was beached on Abaco Island.